Kill standby with One For All's remote control

Switching off standby is the stereotypical introduction to greener living and we place it with pride on our list of green deeds. But you know those evenings you've fallen asleep on the sofa in front of the TV and turning off the standby button just seems like the biggest effort in the world -- and you sneak to bed pretending you forgot? Now a new remote control, the One For All Energy Saver, promises to make it super easy for us to kill that standby and save money and CO2.

The idea of the One For All Energy Saver is similar to that of the Standby Buster and Bye Bye Standby: it turns all your standby stuff off in one go. In this case you just put the One For All Power Plug into the wall socket, connect it to as many as four things -- like your TV, digibox or DVD player. As the remote control comes pre-programmed to control the Power Plug, all you need to do is to press its green energy-saving button to make it all switch off at once. As easy peasy as turning the telly on and off when it's on standby.

One For All does some impressive number-crunching -- based on German research -- for anybody who might doubt whether this gear really reduces your bills and carbon footprint. To cut a long story short, it concludes that by using the One For All Energy Saver remote control, you could save up to 74.34 kilowatts a year, or 44kg of CO2. Every little helps.

The One For All Energy Saver remote control retails at £40 at Maplins online, Currys, John Lewis and more.

The One For All Energy Saver could help you cut your annual carbon footprint by 44kg of CO2

Press the green button and turn all your standby lights off at once

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